Stencil.



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sr'ENclL. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. Il, ISIS- vucyroumo q, amarre www :LMS con N v Patented Apr. 3, i917.

` of the borough' of Manhattan, in the city and -To all 'whom t may concern:

-ALBERr E. s'rnrrrEL, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

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j' spiacation gf Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3, i917.

animation nea september" 11, i913. serial no. 789,305.

Be it knownthat I, ALBERT I a citizen ofthe United States, andresident State ofNew York, ha-ve invented a new anduseful Improvement in Stencils', of which the following is a specification.`

Heretofore'in the manufacture of stencils in which a suitably prepared -long fiber fabric hasbeen employed, the fabric has been secured tov its oblong frame and stretched 'across the opening therein with thefibers running transversely of the frame,

-,namely, across the narrow gap therein. As

the long fiber fabric, due'to its 'method of manufacture, is much stronger in the divfully the very hard usage tofwhich rection in which the fibers run than in the direction across the fibers, itfhas beencustomary in manufacturing stencils to make the fabric in two or more plies soafs to give sufficient strength" for withstanding successcils are ordinarily subjected. .-1

vI have discovered hat by securing the long fiber. fabric to the oblong framewith the 4fibers running longitudinally ofA thef frame, I am enabled to obtain'tlge. greatest strengthvin the direction needed, and-by doing this I am'en'abled` to make a very strong and durable stencilwithonly a single ply ofthe long-fiberpfabric, which it has heretofore been impossible to do, thus saving ma-y terially in' the cost of the vstencil and inthe expense of manufacturing thesame. `I also produce a stencil in which Atheqmatter pressed thereon by the typewriting machine I will 'not'become distorted but will be trans` ferred in the' stencil addressing machin very accuratelyand clearly because of valuable for the purpose intended.

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dong -1 fibers running longitudinally 'of the! blong E15, frame, thereby rendering thel stencil" more In the.. accompanying drawing the figure represents infront elevation my improved stencil. i

'lheoblong rectangular frame of cardboard or other 'suitable material, is denoted by 1Q 'A single ply of long fiber'fabric 2', which may be a suitably treated Japanese ydental paper. is secured to the yframe l in the usual manner and is stretched across theiopenV ing in the frame with the fibers of the fabric running longitudinally of the frame; 'This will 'give thestencil#the,l greatest .strength across the longest gap inthe frame and will also give great strengthl to ,the address or other printedmatter- 3, impressed on the stencil lengthwise of -thefframe and will keep the relative positions .of the several characters of a ,line much more-accurately than heretofore and lthereby produce a more legible andA better alined transfer thereof than has' been possible where, thev fibers ran tudinally. of the frame.

A stencilcomprising an oblong frame "and a single ply of suitably treated long fiber fabric secured thereto with the fibers running -Inf testimony, that I claimthe foregoing as. my invention,*I havesigned my name 1n presence of two witnesses,thi's eighth day 'of .Septemberlle/lsr. y

i ALBERT STRIPPEL.'

Witnesses: y Y

F. GEORGE BARRY, C. S. SUNDGREN. 

